Series 3
- Episode 4
Ye of Little Faith

Review

by Alison Graham

An airline crew on a layover (in more than one sense) in Saint-Marie are having fun, until one of them, a stewardess, is found dead on her bed. Of course she is, this is Saint-Marie: very few visitors ever make it out of the place alive. So the standard procedures swing into action as DI Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall), in a loud and terrible shirt he misguidedly bought because he wants to fit in with the locals, arrives to make notes of the murder scene on scraps of paper. Someone, please, buy the man a notebook.

Even for Death in Paradise the investigation and its eventual conclusion are, to put it mildly, byzantine and barmy. But Goodman is still establishing himself, and his character is subjected to one of the oldest, creakiest “comedy moments” in history when he accidentally chews and swallows a red-hot chilli.

Summary

A flight attendant is poisoned during her crew's overnight stay on the island. Humphrey and his team are called to the victim's hotel and begin by questioning her colleagues, but with so many suspects and so little to go on, they are left scratching their heads trying to work out which of her colleagues wanted her dead - so Dwayne goes rogue to pursue his own line of inquiry. Kris Marshall and Danny John-Jules star in the light-hearted Caribbean crime drama.